This study presents credible estimates for the causal effect of a variation in obesity on employment. By exploring … positively affects the employment prospects of obese women but not of obese men. Consistent with this, significant effects of … ; IV estimation ; sample selection ; labor productivity ; employment …

. It is shown that the reform not only promotes employment but may additionally stimulate economic growth. Calibrating the … model to match data for the EU15 reveals that European countries can indeed gain in form of higher employment and growth if …

between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend … Germany, all demographic cells are almost entirely detached from the cycle. Women are less influenced by the cycle in their re-employment … rate from unemployment to employment. -- Labor force ; unemployment dynamics ; business cycle ; worker heterogeneity …

We use data from the adult cohort of the National Education Panel Study to analyse the changes in the employment … characterised by acquiring more education, by entering into employment at a higher age, and by experiencing atypical employment more … histories of cohorts born after World War II and the role of atypical employment in this context. Younger cohorts are …

important differences between Japanese and US energy firms: lower elasticity of the innovation production function in R …&D expenditure, lower probability of radical innovation, and predominance of dirty technologies in Japan. This may explain our …